ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe. You control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic dominion.
Hrm, so what 'we' (modders) need - is a modding system that allows us to specifically indicate where engine effects should be located.
Same applies for other effects: Where missiles should exit, where lasers should fire from, etc.
That way we could see some 'proper' ship mods that don't just enhance/add but improve the base game. No offense to the talents of the dev team but the vanilla ships are definitely the weak point. The universe and planets look great but the ships aren't all that inspiring for the most part. Some races are outright unpleasant / awkward looking.
Okay I edited the texture a bit so that it is more grey at all, and made a few screenshots.
As I said in the OP, the textures aren't perfect, so that I'm in need of a texturer to make better ones
Concerning the question of the Colony Ship model, I could do one surely, but before I do this I wanna optimize the current battle ships a bit. I will redo the Icons to make them better visible, and I will try to change the real size of the ships in battle, cause actually they've all the same size there. I have no idea how to change it, so I'll open a thread on that issue.
i've answered in the appropriate thread about the size changes. On the issue you mentionned to amplimath, i'm checking, but if you could provide an output_log and the exact files that make the game crash, that would be a big plus (to not say that would be the minimum to investigate). With the mod's latest version, i cant see any problem.
davea wrote: Please note that Sheredyn is *not part of the base game*. You have to buy the "Emperor edition" at extra cost, to get that faction. From the lore, it makes sense that Sheredyn should reuse UE ships. You may want to consider changing this to automaton, which reuses craver ships for no (lore) reason.
Does it though? The UE are essentially a merchant guild, whereas the Sheredyn are a dedicated military outfit of that group. One would think they would have slightly more focused ships. Like how an oil sheik might have a Hummer H1 or a T-98 Kombat, whereas the military of that sheik's country would have straight up tanks.
I'm really interested in trying out these models but the links in this thread all seem to be dead, Are there any other links? And thanks for the effort the images look pretty sweet
I'm sorry, but this issue can't be fixed as far as I know. That's the problem of the prefab system, which is great for modding beginners cause it provides all information a ship needs like weapons and engines etc. in one line in the Index.xml, but for advanced modding it's not ideal (Although I'm not sure if I could mod this actually if it was possible. ).
Well, the OP has a screenshot of all of them, but these are not action photos from the tactical view. Unfortunately with the original black texture, IMHO they are not that good in-game.
Yeah that's a good point. I only play with Craver Ships, cause they're looking relatively good (not perfect!) in contrast to the Hissho Ships e.g. (only their Battleship looks good ) or the Sower with their ugly ones
Ships look great! But when I tried, they all look... wooden... ish....yeah very much made of wood lol. The pics of them had paint but when I play they look like wooden models of ships… did I do something wrong lol?
Can you take a screenshot and post it on some other image hosting service, and then link the screenshot here? Please do not simply attach the screenshot here, the forum shrinks images so much we cannot see any image quality problem.
I'm no expert, but the culprits for the wooden look of the ships seem to be TitanTexture.png and TitanTextureVersuch.png. My ships also looked wooden until I edited those 2 in photoshop. I made them khaki green, not much better than before due to my lack of skill, but less jarring than wood I suppose .
Other factions are relatively easy to make. There is an xml file with affinities, that can be modified to make more. And the recent version of the game (I have not had it installed for 6 months or so) also allows, when creating a custom empire, to select an affinity and a ship appearance, so it should be possible to define new ship appearances somewhere too
We definitely need the devs to release a template that can be used to indicate where certain things go, like weapon launch points and engine effects. Even a blank .max file with each point using a placeholder icon, on different layers for different effects. I would download and use this, but the engine points not lining up would erk me quiet a bit. Great job though!
There is currently no way to attach ships to a new faction, the data files defining this info are still concealed in the games archives, new factions simply default to using the cravers ships.
And no, creating a new faction is actually not at all easy to make, its quite alot of work, trust me on this I've done it.
But if they even release the linkage between factions and ship you can bet I'll be making new factions with custom ships quick as a wink.
Quaresma7 wrote: Did the Sheredyn Faction disappear with the mod?
Please note that Sheredyn is *not part of the base game*. You have to buy the "Emperor edition" at extra cost, to get that faction. From the lore, it makes sense that Sheredyn should reuse UE ships. You may want to consider changing this to automaton, which reuses craver ships for no (lore) reason.
VIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
The clearest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
VIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
20 000g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report EvilTactician?
Are you sure you want to block EvilTactician ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock EvilTactician ?
UnblockCancelQuaresma7
Newcomer
Quaresma7
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Quaresma7?
Are you sure you want to block Quaresma7 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Quaresma7 ?
UnblockCancelRavine
Newcomer
Ravine
Newcomer
200g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Ravine?
Are you sure you want to block Ravine ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Ravine ?
UnblockCancelVIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
The clearest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
VIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
20 000g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report EvilTactician?
Are you sure you want to block EvilTactician ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock EvilTactician ?
UnblockCancelQuaresma7
Newcomer
Quaresma7
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Quaresma7?
Are you sure you want to block Quaresma7 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Quaresma7 ?
UnblockCancelRomeo
Literary Transformer
Never shift in to reverse without a backup plan.
Romeo
Literary Transformer
38 900g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Romeo?
Are you sure you want to block Romeo ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Romeo ?
UnblockCancelShrik3
in Disguise
Shrik3
in Disguise
22 500g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Shrik3?
Are you sure you want to block Shrik3 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Shrik3 ?
UnblockCanceldavea
Newcomer
davea
Newcomer
700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report davea?
Are you sure you want to block davea ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock davea ?
UnblockCancelVIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
The clearest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
VIPEvilTactician
Senior VIP
20 000g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report EvilTactician?
Are you sure you want to block EvilTactician ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock EvilTactician ?
UnblockCancelQuaresma7
Newcomer
Quaresma7
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Quaresma7?
Are you sure you want to block Quaresma7 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Quaresma7 ?
UnblockCanceldavea
Newcomer
davea
Newcomer
700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report davea?
Are you sure you want to block davea ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock davea ?
UnblockCancelQuaresma7
Newcomer
Quaresma7
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Quaresma7?
Are you sure you want to block Quaresma7 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Quaresma7 ?
UnblockCancelvonbron
Newcomer
vonbron
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report vonbron?
Are you sure you want to block vonbron ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock vonbron ?
UnblockCancelAnthonyNVII
Newcomer
AnthonyNVII
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report AnthonyNVII?
Are you sure you want to block AnthonyNVII ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock AnthonyNVII ?
UnblockCanceldavea
Newcomer
davea
Newcomer
700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report davea?
Are you sure you want to block davea ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock davea ?
UnblockCancelPoncy
Old Timer
Poncy
Old Timer
14 400g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Poncy?
Are you sure you want to block Poncy ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Poncy ?
UnblockCancelCrymson
Stellar
Crymson
Stellar
8 700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Crymson?
Are you sure you want to block Crymson ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Crymson ?
UnblockCancelorcus2190
Newcomer
orcus2190
Newcomer
100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report orcus2190?
Are you sure you want to block orcus2190 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock orcus2190 ?
UnblockCancelCrymson
Stellar
Crymson
Stellar
8 700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Crymson?
Are you sure you want to block Crymson ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Crymson ?
UnblockCanceldavea
Newcomer
davea
Newcomer
700g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report davea?
Are you sure you want to block davea ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock davea ?
UnblockCancel